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Note: This is not a list of cities in California, it is a list of urbanized areas. Make note to find list of Cities by population. Mackerm 17:58, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't San Francisco and San Jose be merged into San Francisco Bay Area? Rick K 06:17, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)

Good point, RickK. The U. S. Census Bureau does list a San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose CMSA. I'd go for it. --avnative 06:50, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)

Just FYI: I moved this page from List of cities in California (by population) and put in some actual city data, instead of urban-area data. Mackerm 01:37, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think I understand you, Mike. List of urbanized areas in California (by population) is a place to list incorporated cities (and apparently unincorporated towns and other communities) by population rank, not urban areas per se. List of cities in California appears to be the total, all-encompassing list for California incorporated cities, unincorporated towns, villages and other communities. Correct? Thanks for the FYI and your hard work you have been doing. --avnative 03:21, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

We have some confliting data here. The LA page states that the population of the greater metropolitan area is arround 18 million and this page sais it is 12 million. Wich one should i believe ? native earthian 01:08, Jun 16, 2006 (UTC)

This is a list of urban areas and not metropolitan areas. It says in the Los Angeles entry that the Los Angelese urban area is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. You can see which other urban areas also compose the Greater Los Angeles. Polaron | Talk 01:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redo page?

This page seems to have a lot of incorrect and unsourced information (i.e. the San Jose "urban area" is listed as having over 2,500,000 people; the entireity of Santa Clara County only has 1.7 million people). I am proposing the page be re-done, using the definitions and population figures provided by the United States Census Bureau. It is one list, using supposedly consistent criteria in its definitions, with official numbers. If I don't hear any discussion/objections, I'll re-do the page in a couple of days.Dtcomposer 17:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. For instance, Fresno appears to have doubled in size in seven years (that figure looks suspiciously like an editor did not know the difference between a UA and an MSA). There are more reliable data at List of United States urban areas. I'm tempted to be bold and copy the reliable 2000 data over this, but I'll give people a chance to come up with reliable 2007 data first. 𝐨𝐱𝐲𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐵𝑈𝑇𝐴𝑍𝑂𝑁𝐸 Ⓤ Ⓣ 11:16, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same, for some reason Los Angeles and Long Beach includes Santa Ana which does not boarder either of those and then later Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, and San Clemente are listed on their own. This effectively splits Orange County into two separate groups and leaves important Orange County cities out (Irvine and Anaheim). More often than not Orange County is considered part of the greater Los Angeles area and should probably be listed as such here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.129.204.49 (talk) 23:02, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please look at the source material (Census Bureau). Urban Areas, as defined by the Bureau, have very specific criteria and are different than incorporated cities, counties, metropolitan areas, combined statistical areas, or "real-world" definitions. You can look at the maps here: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/maps/2010ua.html

This happens to the Bay Area a lot: the "real-world" definition is the nine counties that border the bay, but the Census Bureau and OMB have no entity that matches that definition, either splitting the nine counties into five different metropolitan areas, or defining a combined statistical area that includes three additional counties. Dtcomposer (talk) 22:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Important suburbs

There is a list of "important suburbs". What makes these suburbs important? Why are they more important than other suburbs? This kind of unsourced list just opens itself up for people to add their favorite city. I will remove the section unless I hear otherwise. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 01:05, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]